The Boks will nonetheless be smarting after squandering a bunch of alternatives of their humbling 25-17 defeat against Australia of their opening Rugby Championship tour match on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday.
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The Wallabies outscored the visitors by three tries to two – each which have been scored by alternative unfastened ahead Kwagga Smith – whereas changing two penalties to at least one by the Boks.
When taking a better have a look at a number of the official Sanzaar statistics, there are some fairly loopy figures that pop up, whereas it turns into clearer how the Boks have been their very own worst enemy.
It’s clear that they have been fully off their sport when it got here to clinically ending alternatives, and that’s why this has been a key focus space forward of Saturday’s rematch in Sydney.
In phrases of attacking statistics, the Boks in actual fact made 436m to simply 280 from the Wallabies, whereas beating 24 defenders to Australia’s 14. The guests additionally made seven clear breaks in comparison with simply 4 from the house staff.
Despite all this dominance and whereas having fun with 54% of possession, the Boks may solely handle two late comfort tries when the sport was already misplaced. It paints a transparent image of how South Africa are at present missing a killer intuition on assault.
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Interestingly, the Boks did make extra tackles (104 to 95), whereas Australia missed as many as 24 tackles, and but couldn’t make them pay.
In statistics that you’ll very not often see for this Springboks aspect, it’s actually notable that in addition they in actual fact kicked lower than the opposition (20 to 21), with a transparent indication that the Boks moved away from their standard aerial sport strengths.
Whether they have been seeking to evolve their assault, or just went off script, is actually one other speaking level.
Notably, the Wallabies had only a 53.8% success fee at their lineouts, with the Boks dominating yet one more side of play with out gaining a lot reward on the scoreboard.
In phrases of penalties, the Wallabies conceded a whopping 16 penalties (to 9 from the Boks), and obtained two yellow playing cards.
All in all, it appears slightly unbelievable that the Boks have been unable to return away with a victory on the premise of most of these statistics.
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The Boks have fallen to the underside of the Rugby Championship standings
Standings (performed, received, drawn, misplaced, factors scored, factors conceded, bonus factors, whole)
Argentina 3 2 0 1 99 76 1 9
Australia 3 2 0 1 83 91 1 9
New Zealand 3 1 0 2 63 74 1 5
South Africa 3 1 0 2 66 70 0 4
Points allocation
4: win
2: draw
1: scoring at the least three tries greater than opponents; dropping by fewer than eight factors
0: loss with none bonus factors
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RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS TO DATE
1st spherical
South Africa 26 New Zealand 10
Argentina 26 Australia 41
2nd spherical
South Africa 23 New Zealand 35
Argentina 48 Australia 17
Leading scorers
Points
54: Boffelli (ARG)
32: Pollard (RSA)
25: Mo’unga (NZL)
Tries
3: Gonzalez (ARG), McReight (AUS)
2: Gallo (ARG), Ikitua (AUS), Smith (RSA), Taukei’aho (NZL)
Rugby Championship fixtures
Next spherical: Saturday, 3 September
In Hamilton, New Zealand
New Zealand v Argentina – 09:35 (SA time)
In Sydney, Australia
Australia v South Africa – 11:35 (SA time)
